Frank Krueger
Co-Host of Merge Conflict
Frank is an independent mobile developer living in Seattle, WA. He started work as an embedded systems engineer, moved on to be a web developer, and eventually found happiness as an iOS developer. He has written iCircuit - an interactive electronic circuit simulator that runs on all the great platforms; Calca - the text editor that is also a powerful calculator; and Continuous - a fun and powerful .NET IDE for the iPad. All the while, Frank has enjoyed releasing open source projects and contributing as much as he can to the software development community. His programming interests include computer graphics, simulation, programming languages, and artificial intelligence. When he's not at his computer, you can usually find him hiking around some mountain or sleeping in a tent by a river.
Frank Krueger has hosted 464 Episodes.
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237: Bot Awesome
January 18th, 2021 | 37 mins 21 secs
android, bot handy, bots, ces, ces 2021, ios, robots, samsung, xamarin
CES 2021 has come and gone and we break down our favorite announcements around robots!
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236: Supporting Your Customers
January 11th, 2021 | 45 mins 9 secs
android, app store, customer support, google play, ios, reviews, support, xamarin
Customer support is hard to do right, and app support is even harder. How do you get your users to contact you with proper information before they give you that 1 star review. We discuss our journey into improving our support system in our mobile apps.
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235: Holiday Hack Success!
January 4th, 2021 | 48 mins 2 secs
android, cadence, development, esp32, ios, lidar, xamarin
We did it! We finished (mostly) our holiday hacks, so tune in to figure out what we did!
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234: Goodbye 2020! Let's ship some apps!
December 28th, 2020 | 1 hr 15 mins
2020, android, app store connect, bluetooth, ios, my cadence, test flight, xamarin, xamarin.forms
As 2020 comes to a close it is time to hustle to try to try to squeeze in app releases. James talks about this latest creation, My Cadence, and how he was able to get the app onto the app store within 1 week and how he ported it to Android in 1 day!
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233: Bluetooth is Mind-blowing!
December 21st, 2020 | 59 mins 52 secs
android, bike, ble, bluetooth, bluetooth low energy, cadence, ios, iot, sensor, xamarin
James has finally discovered the magic of Bluetooth and is on an adventure of building his own app. On top of that he is investigating the wonderful world of IoT and Bluetooth combined!
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232: AirPods Max, Apple Fitness+, and AR/VR Indoor Cycling
December 14th, 2020 | 42 mins 48 secs
airpods, airpods max, android, apple fitness, home cycling, ios, services, xamarin
December surprise from Apple with some brand-new products and services dropping just in time for the holidays. Frank and James take a quick dip into Apple's new headphones, before heading into the world of home fitness and possibilities for app developers.
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231: No M1 Talk We Promise... 🤞🤔🤫
December 7th, 2020 | 32 mins 51 secs
apple, apple m1, ios, m1, macbook, macbook air, xamarin
No, for real, we are completely done with the M1. No M1 talk here at all!
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230: QA Testing M1 iOS Apps + 21% Raise for Frank!
November 30th, 2020 | 38 mins 39 secs
android, apple, ios, lightning talks, m1, qa testing, the queen's gambit, visual basic, xamarin
It is time for lightning topics!!! We are here to break down 6 topics quick! We look at testing iOS apps on the M1 chip, Apple's new raise for all app developers, using C# 9 in Xamarin apps, top level programs, visual basic, and The Queen's Gambit!
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229: Selling iOS Apps on M1 Apple Silicon
November 23rd, 2020 | 37 mins 44 secs
apple silicon, ios, ipados, m1, macos, xamarin
The time has come! We can finally start shipping and selling iOS apps on macOS devices powered by Apple M1 Silicon! We discuss all the pros and cons and things you probably didn't think you should be considering.
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228: .NET Conf 2020 & Apple M1 Event Recap
November 16th, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins
apple, apple silicon, csharp 9, dotnet, dotnetconf, fsharp 5, m1, xamarin, xaml
This last week was crazy! .NET Conf 2020, .NET 5, Visual Studio 16.8, XAML Hot Reload 2.0, Xbox Series S/X launch, Apple M1 Events, and so much more!
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227: Databases!
November 9th, 2020 | 51 mins 54 secs
android, desktop, ios, no-sql, server, sqlite, sqlite-net, xamarin
Let's talk about databases! SQLite, No-SQL, LiteDB, CoreData, and so much more! All the options!
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226: Universal Custom Data Link Schemes
November 2nd, 2020 | 38 mins 20 secs
android, data schemes, ios, sharing data, xamarin
We are tweaking and tuning our apps past the beta summer with small fun quirks from Apple and Google.
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225: Frank Got Catalyst for Xamarin.iOS Working!
October 26th, 2020 | 45 mins 1 sec
android, catalyst, ios, xamarin
You heard it! Frank Got Catalyst for Xamarin.iOS Working!
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224: iPhone 12 is here with magnets!
October 19th, 2020 | 56 mins 47 secs
apple event, homepod, ios, iphone 12, magnets, magsafe, xamarin
That is right, we are back with another full breakdown of a lovely apple event. This time it is the Apple Homepod Mini and iPhone 12 event.
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223: How App Updates Work
October 12th, 2020 | 42 mins 11 secs
android, database, in-app purchase, ios, migrations, upgrades, xamarin
How to app updates work, what do you need to know, migrate, and hook into? Or do you need to at all?
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222: Cool New Tech
October 5th, 2020 | 46 mins 31 secs
android, drones, google tv, ios, lego, ring, xamarin
Drone cameras, 3d printing with pens, google tvs, and so much more!